Trimming-tool for boots or shoes



(No ModeLj-f H. W. WINTER. TRIMMING TOOL FOR BOOTS 0R SHOES.

N.o.4o2,s.76. PatentedApr.30,1889.

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UNITED v STATES PATENT OFFICE,

HENRY WJVINTER, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES W. BROOKS, TRUSTEE, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

T'RIMMlNG-TOOL FOR B OOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,376, dated April 30, 1889.

Application filed. August 25, 1888. Serial No. 233,733. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY WV. WINTER, of Boston, county of Sufiolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in R0- tary Trimming-Tools for Boots or Shoes, of

which the following descriptiomin connection with the accompanying drawings, isa specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Application Serial No. 280,057, filed on the 16th day of July, 1888, shows and describes a trimming-tool having a series of hollow disk cutters attached to a plate by screws.

The tool herein shown has cutters substantially like those shown in that application, and with them I have combined a series of pinions which are engaged by means of a toothed adjusting plate or wheel, rotation of which simultaneously adjusts the cutters so that their cutting-edges may always be presented in like manner and under like conditions to the work to be cut.

Figure 1 is a side or edge view of a cuttingtool embodying my invention, one of the cutters being in section and the hub partially broken out; Fig. 2, a front or left-hand end View of the tool shown in Fig. 1, with the randgage removed; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the cutter and its attached gear.

The shaft a'has applied to it a plate, 0, to which is secured by screws 6 a series of cutters, d, the outer ends of the cutter-shaft having applied to it a rand-guard, g, having a p The parts so far described are substantially the same as in the application referred to, where like letters are employed to designate likeparts.

The circular cutters cl, herein shown as held in place by the screws 6, have connected or formed as an integral part of them, outside the bosses c,pinions 6 which are engaged by the teeth at the periphery of a plate or gear, f, on the shaft a, the said plate or gear being loose on the said shaft and serving to simultaneously adjust the cutters (1 when the set-screws e are loosened to thereby enable the cutting-edges of all the cutters to be presented under like conditions to the work, and

HENRY VV. WINTER.

WVit-nesses:

G. W. GREGORY, F. L. EMERY. 

